Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maxims must be applied to modern life, are on the docket of a Jewish Court of Justice (Beth Din), which opens this week in Manhattan. The first permanent court of its kind in the U. S., the Beth Din is composed of three black-capped Orthodox rabbis - Max Felshin, Benjamin Fleischer, Reuben Maier-and a secretary, Jacob S. Cohen. It will judge divorce cases, slander suits, business disputes, will decide matters of law which might baffle a single rabbi. For certain grave matters, the rabbis will call in 20 colleagues, to form a small Sanhedrin or 100 rabbis...
...Sanctuary of Charles Darwin" will be the subject of a free, public lecture Wednesday evening by Dr. Benjamin Spector, professor of Anatomy, Tufts College, in the Junior Common Room of Winthrop House, at 8 o'clock...
...best-selling novel, The Yearling, plump Marjorie Kinnan Rowlings was awarded this year's Pulitzer Prize. Other winners: Playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood (his second), for Abe Lincoln in Illinois; Biographer Carl Van Doren, for Benjamin Franklin; Scripps-Howard Correspondent Thomas L Stokes, for exposing WPA in Kentucky politics...
...responded Mr. Benjamin, but he explained that, when and if the Communists threaten arrival at their goal by peaceful revolution, he expects the "special privileged minority" to resort to force and violence...
...Benjamin then ticked off the names of two Communist members of the Alliance executive board and a third who "used to be." He professed surprise when Republican Richard Wigglesworth of Massachusetts ticked off the names of three more...